Backend Software Engineer, Earner Payments

About the role and team

This role anchors the foundational trust between Uber Rides and the millions of drivers and couriers who rely on our platform for flexible income. You will directly own and scale mission-critical systems, ensuring every payment, incentive, and transaction is processed accurately and reliably across the globe. This is high-stakes engineering that directly impacts the financial well-being of our entire earner base.

The core challenge involves optimizing resilient payment pipelines for ultra-low latency and high throughput in a demanding, global environment. Success demands relentless grit and systems thinking to navigate complex legacy trade-offs and ensure operational excellence. You'll find yourself constantly learning and challenged by unique scaling problems that accelerate your growth.

What you'll do

• Architect high-throughput, low-latency backend services that reliably process billions of global earner payments at Uber's massive scale
• Drive code health and engineering best practices (testing, documentation) to build resilient, fault-tolerant, and easily maintained distributed systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Finance teams to decompose ambiguous payment requirements into clear, scalable technical designs
• Own the end-to-end reliability and performance tuning of critical payment components, leveraging deep expertise in distributed storage technologies (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra)
• Tackle complex engineering challenges related to money movement logic and financial correctness, proactively identifying inefficiencies and refining the codebase for long-term robustness
• Anticipate and instantly address operational gaps by participating in on-call rotations and resolving high-stakes production incidents to maintain financial integrity and earner trust

• Minimum 4+ years of professional experience in backend software engineering
• Demonstrated expertise with 2+ years of hands-on experience in Java, Golang, or Python
• Proven domain knowledge with 1+ years of experience designing and deploying production-quality distributed services that prioritize high throughput and low latency
• Experience with 3+ years contributing to the full software development lifecycle (requirements gathering, design, coding, deployment, monitoring)

• Background in financial technology, payments, or core platform engineering for a high-scale marketplace
• Proficiency in identifying systemic efficiencies and advocating for improvements with a bias toward action
• Experience contributing to end-to-end features spanning backend, web, and data layers
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in ambiguity and proactively solve complex problems with thoughtfulness and adaptability